"Very good. Next, Chris and Yagami, you two will form a team and arrange corresponding exercises by yourself."
"Iori, you come over in the afternoon to feed the seniors the ball, focusing on straight balls; Chris will practice hitting and fielding with the others."
"Yes." After the coach arranged the training content for the entire army, he left.
Chris exchanged positions with Matsuda-senpai who had been squatting for Yagami before. After squatting down, he punched the inside of the ball cover with his right hand, then placed the ball cover in the middle and looked at Yagami Yagami.
A straight shot? I like it! Yagami took a deep breath and waved his arms to throw a straight shot.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
"nice shot!"
Chris took out the baseball from the holster and passed it to Yagami Yagami, then placed the catcher's glove in its original position again.
"call out!"
"Bang!"
"One more goal!"
"call out!"
"Bang!"
“Excellent!”
Several second-year seniors who were watching Yagami's hunting practice were one after another conquered by Yagami's strength.
"Already six balls, all thrown at the same position." Yu Sakai bit his lip, and Yagami's throwing speed became faster and faster. He almost threw the ball as soon as he received it, without any hesitation.
The ball speed is stable at around 140km/h. Can it achieve precise ball control?
For the first time, the second-year relief pitcher felt unparalleled pressure from his juniors. His right hand hidden in the ball sleeve unconsciously clenched into a fist. He would never admit defeat!
…
At 3:30 in the afternoon, everyone in the baseball club gathered on the training ground to do warm-up exercises and make necessary preparations for the following training.
After a short warm-up, Yagami put on protective gear and began feeding balls to the second-grade seniors.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Ping!"
"The power is very good, keep it up." Taro Fukuda, who hit the ball thrown by Yagami with the first shot, smiled slightly, "One more shot!"
Yagami watched the baseball he threw fly far away, then he bent down and took out another baseball from the ball frame next to him, took a deep breath, waved his arms, and threw it with all his strength.
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Crack!"
"You're quite interesting!" Taro Fukuda's bat swung past the strike zone a beat slower, passing by the speeding baseball. He turned his head and looked at the baseball blocked by the net, and stood up.
The bat pointed at Yagami Yagami on the pitcher's bench and shouted: "Again!"
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Ping!"
"call out!"
"Whoa!"
"Ping!"
"That's right, keep this intensity, Yagami, a few more balls!" Two more balls were hit in succession, and Taro Fukuda began to get excited, "Shoot the ball you just threw again!"
"Yes!" Iori Yagami directly raised his feet, turned around, waved his arms, and swung another ball.
Fukuda, who was waiting for the ball, stared closely at the path of the ball. He didn't swing the bat heavily until the baseball flew into the strike zone.
"Ping!"
This ball flies higher and farther than the previous ball.
After being hit, the baseball flew straight into the sky, flew farther and farther, and finally crossed the fence erected around the stadium and landed on the lawn outside the fence.
Home run?!!
This was the first batter! He hit a home run. Although his pitches were limited to straight pitches... I can only say that this is a batting line that Seido Baseball Club is proud of.
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At the end of practice in the evening, as the only three first-year students in the First Army, Yagami Yagami, Chris, and Tetsuya Yuuki, who had just been promoted to the First Army by Supervisor Kataoka, cleaned up and organized the court together. At this time,
Dong Qingguo suddenly walked over with a bat barrel on his back and said to Yagami Ye: "You will have a hard time next, you have to work hard, do you understand?"
After finishing speaking, Dong Qingguo looked at the other first-year students who were still running on the other court: "Those guys are all hopeless trash."
After listening to Yagami Ye, he didn't have much impression. After all, not everyone has the conditions like him. They can receive professional baseball training starting from the sixth grade of elementary school. Other first-year students just have a lower starting point and they still have time.
To grow up, no one can say that their future will be gray instead of colorful.
On the morning of the second day after joining the First Army, Yagami met senior catcher Kentaro Matsuda in the cafeteria.
"Iori, let's practice hunting in the afternoon."
Yagami nodded in agreement.
…
In the afternoon, Matsuda changed into his catcher's protective gear and when he arrived at the indoor training room, he found that Yagami had arrived early and was practicing pitching against the net.
"Chris didn't come with you?"
Hearing Matsuda's inquiry, Yagami stopped moving, with sweat on his face, and replied: "Chris seems to have gone to see the supervisor for something."
"So that's it." Matsuda walked to Yagami's side, turned his head and looked at the baseballs falling under the net. There were about twenty or thirty scattered balls on the ground.
"Let's do some throwing training." Matsuda patted Yagami's shoulder with his glove and signaled him to start the shooting training.
"Bang!"
Matsuda felt the force of the ball entering his glove, checked Iori's pitching status, and passed the baseball back.
"One more goal!"
In the empty training room, the sounds of pitching and catching began to sound.
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Time passed day by day, and Yagami gradually adapted to the training of the Seido Baseball Club. At the same time, because the qualifiers for the autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Conference were approaching, after Director Kataoka determined the candidates for the first army, a week-long
The training camp then began.
Although the protagonists of the training camp are the sixteen first-choice players of the first army, the members of the second army also need to provide auxiliary training for them. The fielders are responsible for assisting in running and stealing bases, while the pitchers need to feed the batters and help the first-team main players practice.
blow.
On September 10th, Seido's training camp had not yet ended, and the qualifiers for the autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Conference had already begun. Of course, because Seido started playing in the second round, it had a few more days to use than other schools.
time to buffer.
Yagami came on the board for the first time in the three rounds of the qualifiers, which was the semi-finals of the qualifiers, and pitched the entire game. Later, he boarded the board in the eighth inning of the finals, preventing his opponent from scoring any more points, and defending Seido's victory.
It can be said that although Seido's team is still in the running-in period, the autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Conference qualifiers cannot cause Seido too much trouble. Except for the finals, which took a little effort, after the three games of the qualifiers,
It was easy to get the right to qualify for the autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Games.
The next step is to compete with twenty-three other schools in Tokyo for the ticket to enter the spring Koshien.
In early October, Dong Qingguo and Minister Ohta went to the draw together. There were no particularly strong opponents in the first three rounds, but the opponent in the semi-finals was the city's junior, and the opponent in the final was the winner between Didong and Daocheng Industrial.
who.
"Good luck." Kentaro Matsuda said after looking at the schedule.
"The next step is to train seriously." After the second battalion Yushu Tanaka said something, he seemed to have thought of something, and asked Dong Qingguo, "When will the supervisor complete the recruitment of the first army? There are still several shortcomings!"
"The supervisor has his own ideas. The competition is about to start in less than a week. There is no time to make up for it now." Taro Fukuda feels that it is a bit late to make up the players now. This chapter has been completed!